Fishhook



April 5, 1927. 1,623,870

A. .GOODGAME FISHHOOK Filed April 17,1926

INVENTOR W WITNESS: W ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 5, 1927.

UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN GOODGAME, 0F REXFQRD, MONTANA. I

FISHHOOK.

Application filed April 17, 1928. Serial No. 102,757.

attached thereto and such shaft having the upper ends of a plurality of fish hooks slidingly mounted thereon and adapted to be swung outwardly upon an upward movement of the shaft and dome shaped head.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a perspective of the invention.

Figure 2 is a similar view with the hooks extended.

I Figure 3 is a similar view with respect to Figure 2 with a multiplicity of hooks used in conjunction therewith.

Figure 4 is a perspective of the dome shaped head. I

Figure 5 is an elevation thereof. Referring to the drawings in detail, where in like characters of reference denote corre- 'sponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a shaft having its lower and forward end secured to the inner sides and at the intersections of a pair of oppositely disposed semi-circular arms 11 which in turn have their opposite ends secured to the upper side of a ring 12. The opposite end of the shaft 10 is formed into an eye 13 within which one end of a fishing line, not shown, ma be secured. A pair of fish hooks have their elongated shanks 14 provided with inwardly extending offset. portions 15 upon their 'up er ends and hooped upon and around he shaft 10 and extending through the spaces defined between the corresponding inner sides of the arms 11', within the ring 12 and slidingly mounted upon the shaft 10.

In the use and operation of the resent invention it is clearly apparent an manifest that the invention when used is normally positioned as clearly illustrated in Figure 1 of the drawing and when so east will position the dome shaped rheadcomprising the semicircular arms 11 and ring 12 downwardly adjacent the hooked ends of the shanks 14 and upon the apprehension of a nibble or Jerk upon the bait, not shown, carried upon the hooked ends of the shanks 14 will pull upwardly upon the fishing line, not shown, and the shaft 10 which in turn will move upwardly within the looped ends 15 of the shanks 14 and simultaneously pull the dome shaped head thereafter which action causing the shanks 14 to be released from their tension against the inner sides of the rim whereby the said shanks will fly outwardly within the mouth of a fish.

In Figure 3 of the drawing I have illustrated a modified form of the invention constituting an identical shaft 10 having its lower end formed and secured at the inner sections of a semi-circular arm 11' and an arcuate shaped arm 11 and which in turn have... their opposite ends secured to the lower side of a ring 12. A multi licity of like hooks having relatively long s ianks 14 extending through the enclosures defined between the arms 11 and 11? respectively and secured and slidin ly mounted upon the shaft 10' in the simllar manner to those as indicated at 14 in the preferred form of the sitioned as clearly illustrated in Figure 1 of p the drawing whereby the hooks may be baited and thrown overboard and which may not be sprung in the positions as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3 of the drawing un-' less an upwardpull is exercised upon the shank attached to the fishing line.

. The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form. proportions and minor details of construction, and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as propcrly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is A fishing device comprising a shank, a ring, an arm semi-circular in configuration having the extremities thereof secured to the disposed between said arms and within the inner sides of the ring an arcuate sha d 'ring, and offset loop portions formed upon arm carried by the ring and inter-seating the upper ends of the hook shanks around 10 the first mentioned arm at an intermediate the first mentioned shank for sliding move- 5 point in its length inoppositely disposed ment thereon.

relation with respect to the associated end of In testimony whereof I aflix my signature. the shank, hooks having the shanks thereof ALLEN GOODGAME. 

